Grace Chong

Grace Chong is Of Counsel in Gibson Dunn’s Singapore office and a member of the firm’s Global Financial Regulatory Group.

She has extensive experience advising on cross-border and complex regulatory matters, including licensing and conduct of business requirements, regulatory investigations, and regulatory change. A former in-house counsel at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Ms. Chong regularly interacts with key regulators, is closely involved in regional regulatory reform initiatives and has led discussions with regulators on behalf of the financial services industry. She also brings a strategic outlook from an in-house perspective having previously been a counsel in the Global Internal Investigations Group at the Hong Kong headquarters of a large leading multinational bank.

Ms. Chong is a strong advocate for digital innovation and critical infrastructural transformation. She has advised banks, exchanges, asset managers and startups across Singapore and Hong Kong on regulatory issues such as banking and payments regulations, implementation of electronic trading platforms, licensing, crypto funds setup, outsourcing, virtual banking, corporate acquisitions, and data protection and security.